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Mamata Banerjee faction’s candidate for Nandigram bypoll withdraws after meeting CM Suvendu Adhikari, forcing the ex-CM to announce support to the Congress candidate. Hours later, he gets arrested.

Sentenced to life imprisonment for leading the murders of Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two minor sons in Odisha in 1999, Dara Singh has spent over 26 years in jail. His prayer for premature release and remission will now take longer for conclusion.

The two dead Pakistani JeM terrorists were identified as Saddam and Mustafa, both Pakistani nationals, said Jammu and Kashmir Police about the encounter in Udhampur. 

A 2006-batch IPS officer, Sanjukta Parasor was already known as 'Iron Lady of Assam' for her hands-on approach to counter-insurgency operations in the Northeast. Her appointment as the head of India's most specialised counter-insurgency force marks a generational and symbolic shift.

The alert did not emerge in isolation. It unfolded against a backdrop of intensifying hostilities from Yemen's Houthi movement, which has expanded its foothold along the strategically vital Red Sea coastline even as its strikes against the kingdom grow bolder and more frequent.